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EIT Food’s Consumer Observatory published two reports offering findings and industry recommendations to increase European consumer acceptance of plant-based and cultivated meat.

Prologis published an Oxford Economics report finding $3.2 trillion of goods flowed through its warehouses in 2024, supporting 3.6 million jobs and contributing $348 billion to the global economy.

Hydroleap raised USD 4.75M from EDBI, Antares Ventures and Woh Hup (bringing total funding to nearly USD 12M) to scale its electrochemical water-treatment solutions across hyperscale data centres and industrial sectors in APAC.

The article announces the launch of the NISAR satellite, a joint NASA-ISRO mission to map Earth’s surface changes with unprecedented detail.

• The US$1.2-billion NISAR satellite launched from Sriharikota, India, will scan nearly the entire planet every 12 days, measuring vertical ground shifts as small as one centimetre using dual radar instruments from NASA and ISRO.
• The mission aims to improve disaster response by providing rapid data on floods, earthquakes, and landslides, and is slated to operate for at least three years, though future Earth-observing missions face potential budget cuts from the US government.

Helion has begun construction work on the Orion fusion power plant site in Malaga, Washington (leased from Chelan County PUD), staying on track to supply fusion electricity to Microsoft by 2028 under a 2023 PPA with Constellation Energy.

Alpha Ladder Group’s MVGX Tech secured Singapore patent SG 11202307853U for the CNT® Carbon Stablecoin framework to tokenise verified decarbonisation activities into carbon-backed stablecoins, integrate with NFDT® digital twins and MetaComp’s StableX for sustainable cross-border payments; POC issued as a CIS in Sept 2021 backed by Chinese CCER credits.

The European Commission endorsed EFRAG’s VSME voluntary sustainability reporting standard on 30 July 2025 and said it will serve as the basis for a future delegated voluntary standard under the Omnibus I simplification package (affecting companies with up to 1000 employees).

The Government of Canada and the Province of Nova Scotia have jointly designated four offshore wind energy areas off Nova Scotia’s coast as a key step to develop an offshore wind industry.

• Designated areas: French Bank, Middle Bank, Sable Island Bank, and Sydney Bight; aiming to license 5 gigawatts of offshore wind by 2030.
• Process and next steps: Competitive licensing managed by the Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Energy Regulator; first call for bids planned later in 2025; further areas to be revisited after initial licenses are awarded.

ETH Zurich researchers have announced a breakthrough in cultivating thick, functional bovine muscle fibres in the lab for cultivated meat production.

• Developed a cocktail of three molecules to induce precursor cells (myoblasts) to form thick, contracting muscle fibres closely resembling natural bovine muscle tissue at molecular and functional levels.
• Current production is at gram scale, with ongoing efforts to optimize cell culture medium for affordability and safety, and to scale up production; commercial products will not contain the molecules used in early differentiation stages.